Columbia Student Posts Epic Takedown Of Columbia

You'd think a "Forum on Ferguson" would be a racially sensitive event. Nope.

In the wake of Ferguson and the Eric Garner case, a lot of people are starting to call out the ridiculous bull hockey around them. Like this Columbia 3L who took to Twitter last night and laid into Columbia over its “Forum on Ferguson.”

See, you’d think a “Forum on Ferguson” would be a racially sensitive event. Or at least a racially conscious event. Nope. At least not the way this student explains it:

Sit in the audience? Surely you jest. There’s no frigging way an institution like Columbia would host an event on one of the most important cases about race in America and not ask its faculty of color to lead.

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Holy freaking God. Kimberlé Crenshaw is on the f**king faculty and she had to raise her hand to talk from the audience?!? No. Just. Wait. No.

Frankly @AIRofATHENA, this is a bit of an understatement.

Well, I don’t know about that. But go on.

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Oh. Well then.

Then Professor Victor Goldberg gets discussed.

Remember a couple weeks ago when the Army told people the word “Negro” was appropriate? Good times. Pro tip: Acceptable uses of the word “Negro”:

1. When name-checking the “United Negro College Fund.”
2. That is all…

From what we gather, the incident came up when a black student approached him to express discomfort when other students said racially charged stuff and he said something to the effect of, “I’m coming from an era where I’m still getting used to not using the word ‘negro'” Look, I’m sure he didn’t mean to be offensive.” And he’s right, language has changed over the years. It happens. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take the 10 minutes required to figure out if you’re — intentionally or unintentionally — being a dick.

Let’s.

Couple days ago, I wrote an article about how savvy law schools just tell students what they want to hear. This is not what law students want to hear. It’s not that studying isn’t just super. But when you tell a bunch of black people that they need to study you’re kind of implying that black people are somehow incapable of understanding that tests require studying. Which is, you know, kind of a horrible thing to say.

Hey, exams are coming up:

I’m not one for “emotional trauma.” Literally my heart is made of metal. That said, I’ve not seen two people get killed for looking like me and then have their killers get off so maybe I’m not in a position to say there’s nothing to this.

Damn straight. Back to the earlier part about law school marketing, they go absolutely nuts for throwing diversity into their promotional materials. Withholding that luxury is power.

And unfortunately it may be the only leverage you’ve got there.

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